The Moscow court recognized the legal extension of the house arrest of blogger Lerchek

The Moscow City Court has declared lawful the extension of the house arrest of blogger Valeria Chekalina (Lerchek). This was announced on August 27 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the courtroom.

It is clarified that the court also upheld the house arrest of her ex-husband Artem Chekalin. His lawyer, Korney Podvoisky, explained that the investigative actions had already been completed and added that he had also asked to cancel the decision of the court of first instance.

On August 21, the Troitskiy District Court of Moscow extended the house arrest of blogger Lerchek. It is specified that it was extended for one month and seven days — until September 28.

The criminal case against Chekalina and her ex-husband Artyom was opened in October last year. The ex-husband and wife, as well as their accomplice, were suspected of illegally withdrawing more than 250 million rubles from Russia to Dubai using forged documents (art. 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In May, the tax service issued a new bill to the blogger for more than 28 million rubles. At the hearing on the extension of the preventive measure on May 22, the prosecution indicated that the investigation of the criminal case against Lercek and her ex-husband could not be completed on time.

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